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Record Nr.

UNINA9910404757003321

Autore

Brooten Bernadette J.

Titolo

Women leaders in the ancient synagogue : inscriptional evidence and background issues / Bernadette Brooten

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Providence, RI] : , : Brown Judaic Studies, , 2014

Atlanta : , : Scholars Press, , 2020

©2020

ISBN

9781951498085

1951498089

9781951498078

9780891306702

0891306706

9780891305873

0891305874

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (x, 281 p. ) : illustrations (greyscale), plates, tables

Collana

Brown Judaic studies; ; 36

Disciplina

296.082

Soggetti

Women in Judaism - History

Synagogues - Organization and administration - History

Jews - History - 168 B.C.-135 A.D

Jews - History - 70-638

Judaism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

The text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/. To use this book, or parts of this book, in any way not covered by the license, please contact Brown Judaic Studies, Brown University, Box 1826, Providence, RI 02912.

Nota di contenuto

Part One: The Inscriptional Evidence -- Part Two: Background Questions.

Women as Heads of Synagogues -- Woman as Leader -- Women as Elders -- Women as Mothers of the Synagogue -- Women as Priests -- Did the Ancient Synagogue Have a Women's Gallery or Separate



Women's Section? -- Further Background Issues Relating to Women Leaders in the Ancient Synagogue.

Sommario/riassunto

This book argues that women served as leaders in a number of synagogues during the Roman and Byzantine periods. The evidence for this consists of nineteen Greek and Latin inscriptions in which women bear the titles "head of the synagogue," "leader," "elder," "mother of the synagogue" and "priestess." These inscriptions range in date from 27 B.C.E. to perhaps the sixth century C.E. and in provenance from Italy to Asia Minor, Egypt and Palestine. While new discoveries make this a growing corpus of material, a number of the inscriptions have been known to scholars for some time. The book contains a new preface by the author.